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Chilworth’s West Lodge Reveals Its Wartime Secrets – Hopes It Will Now Be Preserved
By Gavin Morgan New research backed up by English Heritage has unearthed the wartime role of West Lodge, part of the Chilworth Gunpowder works. It appears to have been built…
Carols On The Green At Wood Street Village
By Bob McShee Carols were sung around the Maypole on Wood Street Village Green last Saturday night (December 18). The Maypole had been lit up with approximately 6,000 LED lights falling in the…
Christmas At Sandfield School in 1948 And Other Childhood Memories
Who has fond memories of their schooldays, particularly at Christmas time? Dragon reader Ivan Dally was a pupil at Guildford’s Sandfield School in the late 1940s and has sent in this photo…
Claire’s Column – Green Brexit
In this regular column – a must-read for all those interested in Guildford business – Claire Dee focuses on the greener issues of Brexit. Brexit. Like selfie, a modern word…
Birdwatcher’s Diary No.125
By Malcolm Fincham Occasionally I am encouraged to get involved in a more serious and advanced side to birdwatching. Although not usually my style (mainly due to lethargy), I was…
What Guildford’s GPO Home Guard Unit Did During The Second World War
Based on a photo of men from Guildford Post Office who formed a Home Guard unit during the Second World War, historian Frank Phillipson writes about it and the duties the…
Cathedral’s Claim That Survival Depends on Housing Project is ‘Emotional Blackmail’
Residents near Guildford Cathedral, opposed to a bid to build 134 home on the slopes of Stag Hill, on which the cathedral stands, are unconvinced by claims that the cathedral won’t survive…
Richard’s Wey December 2016
The latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations The wonderful display of autumn colours continued through November, and we were even treated to some moody misty…
Where Is This? No.239
By David Rose The house with the name Pentholme on the gate was always going to be a tricky one to identify, but we have the answer. Reader and historian…
Fascinating Pictures and Details of an Aussie Soldier Convalescing in Guildford During First World War
By David Rose During the First World War, Guildford’s workhouse in Warren Road was taken over as a military war hospital. The historians at today’s Spike heritage centre on the site…
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